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Shit man, BF3 premium looked promising, and it didn't have much issues compared to BF4. I really wanted to buy premium for BF4 for future weapons that I can never unlock without purchasing one. The Spas 12 in BF3 was a very good weapon. Too bad I was only able to pick it up from dead guys.

I played BF3 as a filthy unknowing peasant, and loved it. Played PC BF4 and all I am ever getting is bullshit laggy deaths where someone spawns right behind me, Oneshotted with the M240B or the M249, or picked off by some asshole with an aimbot from 9 miles away through the thick of a tree. Getting real fucking old. I don't really think punkbuster does a damn thing.

Punkbuster didn't do much shit in almost any games I know. I have never experienced any aimbots but fucking hell the lags and constant crashings are fucking terrible. My Ghosts on PC is a pile of fucking shit, but it never crashed on me.

Some game companies also put their own anti-piracy stuff in there. Some examples:

in a pirated Crysis, your guns shoot chickens

in Serious Sam 3 BFE, a fast, immortal scorpion follows and attacks you

in Batman: AA your cape won't work so you can't glide.

There's also a lot of fake shit out their that load viruses instead of the game. Just buy it. It's cheap especially on Steam sales. Origin sales suck ass but if you're patient, the prices eventually get lower and you can wait longer for the sales to start up again for the best price.

I usually preorder for the bonuses. I only pew order games I'm going to like, and the only one that has burned was me...shudders aliens colonial marines. Other than that, getting a $15 map pack or whatever for free is totally worth it.

Well, your skepticism is understandable EA has a long history of unscrupulous behavior. In addition to practically ruining one of my favorite franchises "Command and Conquer" I finally boycotted their company completely after this incident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TAZ-HN9cOk I will never willingly pay for something that shamelessly steals my personal information.

No, it wouldn't encourage them. EA has a terrible reputation - and rightfully so.
I actually still do not know why people buy their games.
They are arrogant, produce terrible content, ruin games, are bold enough to put microtransactions in 60 $ release, swamp you with crappy overpriced DLCs...
I just... I dunno, why people bother. Think of it this way - every time you buy their game you support what they do. You encourage them to do even more anti-consumer crap just to take more bloody money of you. They do not care, read the new CEO letter - basically, "Well, people bitch but still buy our games, so I do not see what are we doing wrong." They are ultimate arseholes. I stopped buying games from them 3 years ago, I won't break that trend. No matter what they pull out of their sleeve.

It's not an exact fit, because it's not literally someone beating another person.

But in many ways, EA does treat its fan base like an abusive boyfriend. They do wildly insensitive things, then get upset when the fan base doesn't like it. (E.g. Sim City)

They have broken our spirit with so many destroyed franchises, by buying up our favourite developers and dismantling them. I have seen people on reddit, in the subreddit that shall not be named, arguing that we do need EA because they're the only big publisher for PC (nevermind Valve and Steam), which is only the case because EA has driven everyone they could out of business and bought everyone else they could.

They release products with features we don't want, and insist that we do, and god forbid we do anything to remove those features; EA is pretty trigger happy on the cease-and-desist.

Is it as bad as actual abuse? Gods, no, of course not. But their behavior is certainly analogous to abusive behavior.

I played the Alpha on the Xbox One, it is actually really good. I can only imagine it being better on PC, unless they want to fuck us in the ass. EA claimed they'd have a yearly switch up. One year Battlefield, the next Titanfall, the next Battlefront then back to Battlefield etc. How long they go with that, who knows?

No it's not. It's only good for knowing if you're system can run the game. First person shooters need 10-30 hours of game time (if not more) before determining whether or not the game is fair, fleshed out, enjoyable, and lacking game breaking bugs.

It's not enough to find if every gun etc is fairly balanced in say an FPS but it seems like a reasonable amount of time to give it a quick play test.

If there's an issue that makes it unplayable then you can contact support and get a return I have done it.

If it's not completely enjoyable, tough luck. I'm going to assume that there's some lee way, i.e. if a game is so bad (not broken) that you should be able to get a return. If not then there's an issue I agree.

There is a real stigma though, there are way more garbage call of duties now than good ones. He didn't really say they were bad though - just that the gameplay looks like cod with mechs and jetpacks, which is pretty accurate really. Not to say it won't be any fun but that's essentially what it is.

Yeah i think it was alot of the infinity ward team, I'm not saying titanfall would be bad, or that call of duty as a whole is bad. I just meant that call of duty has a bad stigma now do to what the series has become - that's why some people will be hesitant on accepting titanfall I think. I won't judge a game until it's fully out - but watching gameplay all the gun play and speed looks exactly like how call of duty plays. This isn't a bad thing, but I just hope it's not a cash - in because it plays like cod but looks different! The idea sounds really fun, and the smaller match idea I think is good - with how many big shooters we have recently something more arena - ish is something I will enjoy.

The first black ops was decent, however waw, mw2, mw3, ghosts, blops 2, cod 3 where all sub par. Mw2 might be an exception it was a huge hit, but for many especially on the pc it didn't live up to cod4.

The series has been beat to death and is just pissing out blood at the point.

Yeah, It's not the only reason I dislike the series now but it's a big deal if they wouldn't have went the matchmaking route and added a few extra video options it would be fine on pc, but I fell for mw2, and have been mad ever since. It works on a console but not pc. The other reason would just be the fatigue that is associated with the series, they all play relatively the same and add little in the way of new - and the more recent titles added new things that where just odd...

A user made modification of MW2 client that let users host their own dedicated servers and even load mods on them.
When playing on AlterIWnet you had a server browser and it was very similar to COD4.
Let me tell you, it was a whole different game; most servers had balance mods that deactivated grenade launchers and akimbo G18s, we even had a fully functional vote-kick function, in case a cheater got into the server and the admin wasn't online.
It was up for a good couple of years but it was shut down and replaced by other similar (but not as good nor popular) mods called Alterrevolution and Fourdeltaone, all of them were eventually shut down because they let people play the game for free and because of other legal reasons.
The game is dying now on PC, even the steam version is almost unplayable because of the lack of players.

Wow, that sounds awesome! Shame I missed out, I played mw2 a little using the host system and it was just awful, unplayable really. But that was after its prime - like 3 years ago now shame it's shut down I would like to try it...

I felt like every cod that came after MW2 really didn't add a lot, and effectively was the same gameplay. Call of Duty is fun, fast paced, and pretty intense at times. However, there were a lot of things that would drive me bonkers, like hitscan. I bought MW3 just because I was so invested in the storyline.

Fair, I just think that overall, since MW2 there have been no real additions to the game, nothing game changing has been added. Sure things change from game to game, but you'd have to be pretty dedicated to the series to really notice them.

And I dont see a problem with that. Planetside 2 and Battlefield have the large scale combat down to a sciene and they do it fairly well. Call of Duty hasnt had any real competition as of the past few years. This could be what the game style needs.

When the hell did I say it pioneered anything? Don't change what I said, all I said is that titanfall looks like it plays like cod, which has its own type of feel for an fps. every shooter has some feel to, for example battlefield feels nothing like cod, which feels nothing like quake, which feels nothing like planetside, which feels nothing like halo. However titanfall looks like it carries on a lot of the gameplay feel cod has, which shouldn't be surprising as respawn is made up of people who worked on cod.

I'm not denying they were good games, just that I'd rather not have that aesthetic in a game that is meant to be coming out over 4 years ago. I feel they could've done more with the visual presentation of the game rather considering the engine it's running on than fall back on the games they've made prior to leaving Activision.

If you sign up for Green Man Gaming's newsletter, you get a code sent to you once or twice a week for 25-30% off games. Sometimes it's only a specific game, but oftentimes it applies to a variety of them, and in particular they'll often send out these codes for preorders.

For example, 2 days ago I got a code that was good for 25% off a Titanfall preorder. Didn't use it, because I don't want to buy Titanfall until I've heard some trustworthy reviews, but the offer was there. I've gotten similar offers for the new Thief, and I preordered Saint's Row IV for 35% off and BF4 (against my better judgment) for 30% off in the past.

Before anyone asks, no, I can't give you the code. Most GMG codes are available for anyone who wants them, but some (including this one) are specific to your account. Sorry.

The alpha was all the rage over at /r/Titanfall. However, Respawn told the participants that they couldn't talk about the game, post reviews, pictures, etc. I think the graphics were also slightly lower than what they would be at release.

Actually many people have shifted to a no pre-order policy after the failures of Simcity and Battlefield 4. Most of us will probably still buy the game if it turns out to be good but having experienced one too many launch day flops pre-ordering feels stupid.

I certainly won't pre-order any game in the future, the only good pre-order experience I have had recently is with Metro Last Light.

Fuck the downvotes. I agree with you, and so do 40% of the rest of the people in this sub. The "HAY GUYZ DON'T PRE-ORDER TITENFALLZ" is bullshit and brings nothing to the discussion. People are or aren't going to pre-order the game regardless of what some neckbeard on reddit says.

I got a refund for battlefield 3 because origin was telling me it would take 1000000 hours to download. I was pleased at how quickly they responded. Now I just wish they would let there games on steam instead of their rubbish platform.

I've gotten refunds from both. I'd say they are both about the same in terms of customer service (for me... apparently you guys have bad experiences). Back when BF4 was having it's pre-order problems (yeah yeah.... BF4 has its problems), I accidentally pre-ordered it twice due to an error. Anyways they refunded it and I got a 10$ off coupon for BF4.... so there's that... Maybe I managed to get some customer service guy based in USA because his English was pretty dang good.

Well, once was that time when the guy advised me to turn off ALL user processes in task manager and then play their fucking games in that state.
My "Are you fucking serious?" was the last line in that bloody conversation.
So no, I didn't have that. But what do I expect.

I don't understand all this hype around this game. From what I've read, it sounds quite generic and nothing new. Also, has there been any video containing actual gameplay released yet? I will not be playing it but I have extremely low expectations for the game and will not be purchasing it unless it goes on sale on steam.

They have DRM! They only work with an internet connection! Once, two years ago, the servers weren't offline and I couldn't play Assassins Creed 2 for 3 hours!

All not real reasons to hate uPlay. Seriously I have friends who won't play their games because they're on uPlay, I've had no problems. Played the fuck out of AC:Black Flag, that came free with my 780 Ti. Game is fucking amazing.

Well, yeah. Origin isn't nearly as good as Steam. I only use it for exclusives. But it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Would it be nice to have one universal client? Yeah! But, hey.. Shit happens, life goes on.. Stay safe, and keep well. :)

Its the only way to tolerate it. The nail in the coffin for me was when EA not only forced me to use origin, but made the server browser a fucking website. EA is dead to me, I deleted origin, gave up on BF 3 and torrented mass effect.

You're kidding right? Yes they are that bad. EA has actively tried to destroy our hobby for the better part of a decade now, and has done nothing but siphon talent and originality off PC gaming and completely sucked consoles dry. They produce over marketed, under produced fluff made my overworked studios who are then scrapped if it doesn't hit specific benchmarks or garner the type of reception EA had in mind.

They are the mindless megalith literally choking the industry and we have them specifically to thank for everything that PC gamers loathe about consoles. Micro-transactions, Day 1 dlc, on disk DLC, bland repetitive annuals and the dumbing down of the entire console market, all EA.

It is. Have you ever had it running zombie processes that make you hard reset? - I did.
Connection issues galore, cause why EA should bother having good servers.
Also, I do not take kindly to spying on me, so they can respectfully go screw themselves in the arse.

what EA's g3 (great games guarantee) is a policy that if you buy a game on origin you can get a refund no questions asked within 24 hours of first launching the title, or up to 7 days from purchase if you never touched the game. this is something that they can only manage with EA published origin titles.